“Bombs are flying; People are dying; Children are crying; Politicians are lying too. Cancer is killing; Texaco's spilling; The whole world's gone to hell; But how are you? I'm super, thanks for asking; All things considered I couldn't be better I must say!”

...the world was at war. In 1916 however both Britain and France surrendered for reasons unknown and decided to wage a small, insular war to exclude the rest of the world. This war was called "The Concorde war" and actually had more effect on the global economy than world war one itself.

In Britain there were riots: even Prime Minister Arnold Schwarzenegger observed people beating each other up and setting french flags alight; and this was all the result of a petty argument between trans-channel scientists. The French scientists appealed to Britain, its co-creator of the Concorde to add an E (it being called Concord at the time), the E appealing more to french people. The french pointed out that: